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Wislawa Szymborska
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Wislawa Szymborska
Age: 88 †
Born: 1923
Born: July 2
Died: 2012
Died: February 1
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Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.
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Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Dying - you can't do that to a cat.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious they don't like to joke.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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